238 Notes and Illustrations. 
9. 1. With “The Ladder to Thrift” we may compare the follow- 
ing ‘‘ Maxims in -/y,” from the Lansdowne MS. 762, f. 166 (see 
Babees Book, ed. Furnivall, p. 247): 
‘* Aryse erly, 
Serue God devowtely, 
And the worlde besely, 
Doo thy werk wisely, 
Yeue thyne almes secretly, 
Goo by the waye sadly, 
Answer the people demuerly, 
Goo to thy mete appetitely, 
Sit therat discretely, 
Of thy tunge be not to liberally, 
Arise therfrom temperally, 
Go to thy supper soberly, 
And to thy bed merely, 
Be in thyn Inne jocundely, 
Please thy loue duely, 
And slepe suerly.” 
9. 12. ‘‘ Familie,” here used in the sense of the Latin original 
famiiia=household, servants. Compare chap. 73, st. 13. 
9. 29. Compare Shakspere, Richard II. Act ii. sc. 4, 24: ‘* And 
crossly to the good all fortune goes.” 
9. 30, note. ‘“‘To bridle wild otes fantasie,” 7z.e. to restrain the 
excesses of youth. 
10. 4. “Well to account of which honest is not ;” never think 
highly of that which is not honourable, or honestly come by. 
10. 5. Cf. Hebrews xiii. 4: ‘‘ Marriage is honourable in all, and 
the bed undefiled.” ‘Tusser evidently does not appreciate ‘love in 
a cottage.” 
10. 8. ‘‘Giue ouer to sudgerne, that thinkest to thee ;” 7z.e. make 
up your mind to settle down in one place and to give up roaming 
about, if you hope to prosper, lest the grumbling of your hosts 
and the wants of the nurses prove too expensive for you. Compare 
“The Dialogue of Wiving and Thriving,” stanza 3, p. 152. 
10. 10. Dr. Mavor suggests that the third line of this stanza 
should read: ‘‘ Of tone ov them both,” ‘‘ meaning, if we smell the 
savour of saving or winning or them both.” 
10. 11. A fool and his money are soon parted. 
10. 12. ‘‘Good bargaine a dooing,” etc. When you have a chance 
of making a good bargain, don’t let every one know; but when you 
want to sell anything, then let it be published abroad as widely as 
possible. In the first case don’t hesitate or haggle about it, but 
‘take the ball on the hop;” in the second, don’t be in a hurry to 
take the first offer, if you are not ashamed of what you wish to sell. 
10. 14. ‘‘Of the complaint of such poore tenants as paie rent 
corne vnto their landlords, I speake not, who are often dealt withall 
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